By Professor John Robertson OBA
BBC Scotland’s wee insert today in BBC Breakfast, was jam packed with bad news linked to the Scottish Government – consultant vacancies, school violence, homelessness/housing crisis and RAAC.
On RAAC, some facts which will not be mentioned much, if at all:
Aberdeen home-owners buy property which requires maintenance just like any other, in a Thatcherite scheme, at a knock-down price, from a Tory or Labour council, after a professional survey, and the SNP Government has to do something?
RAAC!! A classic media scare story as only between 0.3% and 1.6% of Scotland’s social housing has it.
Leading academic: ‘RAAC can easily last 50 years and should be able to carry on for several decades after that’
Finally RAAC in Schools – Schools concrete – Scots safety checks mostly done, pupils taught somewhere safe, no schools closed, UK Government deviates from advice from the Institution of Structural Engineers
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
BBC Scotland New operates Lord Rothermere’s dictum that their job is to serve the public ‘their daily dose of fear’. Rothermere was founder of The Daily Mail, which once had a headline, “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”
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While in England, where they have moved on since RAAC, 234 schools, dozens of hospitals, courts and the DWP all have buildings where RAAC was used in from the 50s to the 90s, with a known lifespan of 30 years, because it was cheaper. Of course, it’s “difficult to know” how many homes were built using RAAC. It is acknowledged that “some council houses built during the 50s and 80s MAY contain RAAC.
Surely even the unionist opposition must have difficulty pinning this on the SG.
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